This gave it its distinct shark fin shape but rendered it below 1,000 feet, and thus no longer a mountain. With their aid and holding on to a chain used in pulling the hutches they succeeded in crossing the road, and the combined party went upwards through the rise workings. A Covenanter was shot at Bello Path in 1680 and later John MacGeachan a farmer from Meikle Auchingibbert; Old Cumnock was wounded at Bello Path and was buried there after his death - 3 weeks later. However, more recently, I have been revisiting a lot of my early research, wishing both to verify it, and to add detail.

He was taken home, where he expired a few hours afterwards. Here the Gauchalland Company have a number of pits. © UKRI document.write(new Date().getFullYear()), Groundwater data, information and services, Greenhouse Earth — the story of ancient climate change. The billiard tables were in poor condition and the library out of date. Once the mining of ironstone really got under way, Bolckow, Vaughan and Co built their first blast furnace plant on the Tees in 1852, at Middlesbrough, to process the ore from nearby Eston, enabling the entire process from rock to finished products to be carried out in one place. Death appears to have been instantaneous, the pick with which the unfortunate man was working having been driven into his head. 7 pit bottom and the end of the rise there is a step of eleven fathoms. While he and his brother William, between 17 and 18 years of age, were engaged in one of the workings, a large stone unexpectedly gave way and fell upon them from the roof. A nab is a rocky promontory, or outcrop, and the Nab, marking the highest point on the escarpment which forms Eston Hills, appears as a sandstone cliff on the northernmost edge of Eston Moor. [The Ayr Advertiser 13 December 1883], Fatal Colliery Accident – An accident whereby a miner named Isaac M'Lachlan lost his life occurred at Pennievennie Pit, near Dalmellington, on Wednesday night. He was dead before he was taken out of the water. John Jardine, a fine sample of the intelligent Ayrshire miner, in an interview in course of the afternoon, gave an interesting account of the disaster. Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, Francis H Groome, 1885. The development of the Eston Mines was an expansive operation that began with drifts (mines dug directly into the hillside) along the Northern escarpment. For a number of years I just accepted this. They were thus also cut off from the air shaft. Many of them had relatives employed in the pit. Some 28 Government Troops were killed in this skirmish. The almost forgotten industry of calico-printing, and the closely related shawl manufacture, was at one time a major industry in Kilmarnock, though, due to changes in fashion, it had all but died out by the beginning of the 20th century. Deceased was upwards of 50 years of age, and has left a widow and 10 children.

He was engaged at work when a fall of coal and clay from the roof fell on him. Mr Morton, jun., and his companion found that it was impossible to reach the place where the men were supposed to be by the main road leading to the major coal. [The Ayr Advertiser 17 February 1887], Galston - Fatal Pit Accident - On Saturday forenoon a fatal pit accident occurred in No.

[The Ayr Advertiser 29 November 1883], Kilmarnock - Fatal Pit Accident - On Friday afternoon a miner, named James Wright, 17 years of age, son of and residing with William John Wright, miner, at Crookedholm, was fatally injured. [Scotsman 4 July 1879] 7 July 1879 This was the same Dorman Long where my grandfather worked. They were engaged in making communication through twelve feet of solid coal, when a quantity of rubbish came away without warning, and buried both men. It has a post office under Glasgow. What I then discovered was much more interesting. Had the road been clear, they would have gone to No.